It had been six days since the news of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo's internal strife reached Shunzhi. Although Sun Kewang had fought with Li Dingguo's army in these six days, they were all small skirmishes. The big battle had not begun, or it could be said that the armies of both sides could not gather too many in a short period of time, so they could not engage in a big battle.
As for the reason why Sun Kewang had started a war with Li Dingguo, it was very simple. Sun Kewang was no longer satisfied with the title of King of Qin and the title of King of the Country. He wanted to take a step closer to ascend the throne and claim the title of Emperor. If he ascended the throne and claimed the title of Emperor, Zhu Youlang would have to abdicate or kill him. No matter what, Li Dingguo, who was a royalist, would not accept it.
As Li Dingguo, who was loyal to Zhu Youlang of Yongli, he naturally couldn't just watch Sun Kewang plot to usurp the throne. Therefore, he personally led the army to attack Anlong Prefecture without Sun Kewang's defense. He snatched Zhu Youlang from Sun Kewang's control and then welcomed Zhu Youlang's emperor to Kunming.
Li Dingguo's actions completely angered Sun Kewang. Sun Kewang, who was also Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, had always been jealous that Li Dingguo was more favored than him, especially since Li Dingguo's military achievements were higher than his. Now that he was the King of Qin, Sun Kewang was not only jealous but also afraid of Li Dingguo.
Although he was very displeased with Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang had to admit that his younger brother's ability to fight was indeed above his own. Just the fact that he forced Kong Youde to death and scared Shunzhi so much that he almost moved the court outside the pass was enough to show his ability.
For people like Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang felt that it would be fine if they helped him, but if they were a threat to him, he had to get rid of them as soon as possible.
However, Sun Kewang had never expected that before he could plan how to get rid of Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo would take action against him and snatch Yongli, this fat sheep, from under his eyes. How could Sun Kewang not be angry when he felt like a cooked duck had flown away?
Therefore, when Sun Kewang found out that Li Dingguo had snatched Yongli away, he was furious and ordered his troops to go to Kunming to snatch Zhu Youlang back. Firstly, he wanted to snatch Zhu Youlang back and continue to control him. Secondly, he wanted to get rid of this disobedient younger brother.
Li Dingguo was naturally aware of Sun Kewang's movements. When he became enemies with Sun Kewang, he knew that there would be consequences of such brothers killing each other. However, for the sake of righteousness, he naturally would not sit still and wait for death.
One side wanted to snatch the other, and the other wanted to protect it. It could be said that they did not give in to each other, so they were reorganizing their troops and wanting to eat each other in one fell swoop.
Hong Chengchou was very clear about the movements in the southwest. After he learned that Nanming was having internal strife again, he wrote a letter to Shunzhi asking him to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight. Of course, Shunzhi also agreed to Hong Chengchou's plan and gave him full authority.
After receiving Shunzhi's imperial edict, Hong Chengchou was overjoyed. At this moment, he was even more certain that the ruler he was loyal to was a wise ruler. At least, he was much stronger than those emperors of Nanming who only knew how to fight among themselves.
After receiving the power granted by Shunzhi, Hong Chengchou immediately made arrangements. On the one hand, he asked the Qing army in Hunan and other places to wait for the two kings Sun and Li to fight until both sides were injured. On the other hand, he asked Shunzhi to issue an edict to the two kings of Guangdong, Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, to send troops from Guangzhou to Guangxi while Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were fighting. First, he wanted to put pressure on the two kings to fight quickly. Instead, he wanted to take advantage of their shrinking forces and internal strife to occupy several important cities first. It would lay the foundation for the future annexation of Guang Xi and Yun Gui.
After Shunzhi received Hong Chengchou's memorial, he didn't even need to discuss with his subordinates before he directly agreed and gave Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao an imperial edict.
The imperial edict Shunzhi gave Shang Kexi arrived many days later than the previous one. After receiving the news that the imperial court was going to set up a city in Guangzhou, Shang Kexi felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly. He had invited the Manzhou soldiers to help clean up the Ming army, not to let them stay for a long time.
However, what was done was done. The Emperor's imperial edict had already been issued. Even if he was unhappy, he could only pinch his nose and accept it.
Geng Jimao did not care about Shang Kexi. His strength was not as good as Shang Kexi. Even if he did not set up a city in Guangzhou, it was not up to him to decide. Therefore, he did not care about setting up a city in Guangzhou.
Not only that, he was thinking that if he couldn't stay in Guangzhou anymore, he could change places. He didn't want to go to places like Yungui because they were too poor. In the end, he still chose Fujian.
However, although they had chosen Fujian, they could not go there now. After all, it was impossible to go to Fujian to become king without the approval of the imperial court, unless you wanted to rebel.
Therefore, Geng Jimao could only gain more military merits if he wanted to go to Fujian to guard. Only with military merits could he bargain with the imperial court.
Just as Geng Jimao was thinking about how to earn military merits, Shunzhi's second imperial edict came again, asking him and Shang Kexi to send troops to Guangxi. This imperial edict immediately made Geng Jimao eager to try. At the same time, he couldn't wait to destroy this Ming army in Xinhui.
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